Sharat Sinha is the CEO of Airtel Business – India’s leading secure connectivity and technology communications solutions provider. An experienced leader with three decades of global leadership experience in Fortune 500 technology companies like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, VMWare and Ericsson, Sharat joined Airtel from Check Point Software Technologies where he was President of the Asia-Pacific region. At Airtel Business, he leads the team to drive the ambitious and rapidly growing portfolio of future-ready solutions across connectivity and adjacencies. Sharat holds a Doctorate in business management from the University of South Australia, a Postgraduate degree in Industrial and Management Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from IET, Lucknow.

Harjeet is a part of Bharti Management Board and drives the strategic aspects of businesses, both across telecom and non-telecom, by focusing on inorganic build-outs, M&A, capital allocation, partnerships, strategic capital sources, corporate finance, capital structure, equity, investor management (private and public), investments and risk management. He also plays the role of business sponsor, driving core delivery and value creation for consumer and real estate businesses of the group.

A dynamic, entrepreneurial, and result-oriented leader with 20+ years of experience, leading large B2B business in the Telecom, data center, and IT industry. As the CEO of Nxtra by Airtel, Ashish is responsible for defining the business strategy for the company including building new hyper-scale data center parks, driving revenue and margin growth, and management of mission-critical infrastructure with best-in-class customer experience. In his previous roles, he has served as the CEO for Global Business, Enterprise Business, and Emerging Business at Airtel Business. He holds an MBA in Marketing from S P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai.

As the COO of Nxtra by Airtel, Rajesh is responsible for defining & executing the business acceleration plan for the company including designing and construction of hyper-scale data center parks across key markets, driving revenue & margin growth, management of mission critical infrastructure across 120+ hyper-scale, core & edge data centers with best in class customer experience. He is an Engineering graduate in Computer Science from Pune University and has a stellar track record of 26 years with companies such as NTT-Netmagic, Trimax, Global Cloud Exchange, Genpact, and Reliance Infocomm.

Gary is a proven executive in the data center and technology industries. His experience includes founding, growing, and monetizing private and public companies of scale. As CyrusOne’s CEO, he developed the data center strategy that led to the successful IPO and spinoff of CyrusOne from Cincinnati Bell - a 140 year old Telco. In that role, he transformed a regional data center company and grew it to become the third largest data center company in the world, which was recently sold to KKR for $15 billion. He’s currently the founder and CEO of Recreational Realty, which is the largest specialized real estate company in the US focused on marine and RV storage. He is also a board member at GDS Holdings - the largest data center company in China, Quantum Loophole, Infrastructure Tech Partners - an infrastructure SPAC, Involta, and Talen Energy. He holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Rutgers University.

Neeraj Bharadwaj is the Managing Director of Carlyle India Advisors Private Limited, focused on growth capital and buyout opportunities across sectors in India. He holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, and graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

He is a Director in Carlyle India team and has been a part of the investment team responsible for nearly $1.7 billion of investments by Carlyle in India over the last 13 years. He has a strong network of relationships across investment banks, consultants and operations management teams primarily in technology and financial services sectors. He is a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur and has a post-graduate degree in management (Gold Medallist) from IIM Ahmedabad.

An MBA, Chartered Accountant, Cost & Works Accountant and Company Secretary, Vani Venkatesh has over two decades of experience across telecom, FMCG, retail and pharma/nutrition. She serves as the CEO of Delhi NCR region for Airtel and is responsible for running circle operations across mobility, broadband and DTH.